How well do you know really know your golf game? Are you aware of the effects that different types of clubs and shafts can have on your performance? Are you familiar with the golden rules of golf? You may not know as much as you think you do and this lack of knowledge may be holding you back from playing your best golf. The more you know about the basics and fundamentals of the game, the less intimating this game becomes. So let’s see how much you know about your equipment. Today’s quiz is on equipment. You spend a tremendous amount of ...

“Drive for show, putt for dough,” “never up, never in,” “when it’s breezy, swing easy.” I hate golf clichés. I especially hate it when golf instructors like me use them. Of course, you want to “keep it in the short grass.” I vowed to never use them, but the other day I had to break my own rule and use a golf cliché to help myself. I was out in Las Vegas giving a golf clinic at Silverstone Golf Club with fellow Cobra Golf staffer and Pinnacle Long Drive Team member Mike “Lava” Moulton. We cut out early to play a few holes. ...

I wish I had a dollar for every student of mine who told me at the beginning of their golf lesson that they were great baseball players, tennis players or athletes in general and wondered why they weren’t better at golf. A good golf swing requires an athletic move, but you don’t have to be athletic to do it. I have seen plenty of over-weight, out of shape people play really good golf and I have seen plenty of great athletes in top shape play really bad golf. This month Golf Digest ranks 220 top athletes that play golf and ...

“I refuse to hit a driver on any par-3.” – Tiger Woods, referring to the 288-yard par-3 eighth hole at Oakmont Country Club, site of the 2007 U.S. Open and the longest par-3 in U.S. Open history. If Tiger doesn’t want to hit a driver on a par-3’s, then the average Joe golfer who thinks he is Tiger, will refuse to hit driver on par-3 holes even if it is the right club for him to use to reach the green in regulation. Most golfers do not hit enough club into greens and end up short- siding themselves, leaving themselves difficult greenside bunker ...

Ever wonder what sports stars and actors do when they retire? Play golf, of course, so much that a group of them got together and started the Celebrity Players Tour. I am married to one of those retired sport legends, Dan Jansen. Do you remember him, the speedskater? No, not the decathlete guy, you are thinking of Dave Johnson of the Dan and Dave Reebok commercials. People get them confused all the time. Dan won gold in the 1000 meters. No, he just won one gold medal. You are thinking of Eric Heiden, he won 5 gold medals. It is ...